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Yesterday, more than SIXTY THOUSAND military-aged Arab men stormed two Spanish cities on the coast of North Africa.

Don’t think they’re there by accident. This was planned.

Spanish residents of Ceuta and Melilla were flooded by “refugees” who burned cars, stormed buildings, and shouted “Allahu akbar.”

These cities are the last European holdings in North Africa.

More and more men continued to arrive late into the night.

ATQUe: Spaniards Horrified To See Their Country Turning Into Minnesota (Babylon Bee)

ATQUE: Facebook Shuts Down Large Groups Coordinating Invasion of Spain’s Ceuta

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Some of rhem appear to agree with me that root beer tastes like cough syrup. God knows what they’s think of Dr. Pepper.

Interestingly enough, a couple of the boys were from Italian families and refused to accept that Detroit deep-dish pizza is legitimately pizza, characterizing it as a form of lasagna. Can’t say they’re wrong.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci may have believed his Fifth Amendment marathon at the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday would shield him from prosecution, but he miscalculated.

Before he refused to answer questions from the committee, Fauci did deliver an opening statement, during which he attacked Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and explained his decision not to answer any questions.

“Given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and, recently, his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something – anything – that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars,'” Fauci said. “Therefore, although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.”

And so he did, an estimated 111 times, but it won’t protect him completely.

On Jan. 20, 2025, his last day in office, Biden granted Fauci a full and unconditional pardon covering any offenses he may have “committed or taken part in” tied to his government roles between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 19, 2025. The broad preemptive pardon Joe Biden handed him on the way out the door covers federal charges alone, and it leaves him exposed to the state charges that may arrive sooner than his lawyers expected.

Florida wasted no time proving the point. State Attorney General James Uthmeier announced an investigation into the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) after Fauci declined to answer lawmakers’ questions on Wednesday.

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Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the North African coast. At least 18 people have died, while Italy is threatening to bring back border checks.

The mass crossings into Ceuta and Melilla—two Spanish territories that border Morocco—sparked a major diplomatic crisis within hours. Both cities belong to Spain, making their borders with Morocco part of the European Union’s external frontier.

Spain’s interior ministry says around 49,000 people crossed by land and sea in just 24 hours. At least 18 reportedly died in stampedes or while trying to swim around the Tarajal border crossing into Ceuta.

The Spanish government has sent 200 specialist police officers and 60 soldiers to the area. Melilla has not seen an influx on the same scale, but clashes broke out at its Beni Enzar border crossing. Several vehicles were set on fire, while migrants and members of the security forces were injured.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised an “immediate” response, saying his left-wing government was sending help and working with Morocco. Sánchez is expected to visit Ceuta with Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska to meet local officials and police commanders.

ATQUE: Videos Show Thousands Swimming Into Spain as Border Is Overrun  This is an actual invasion, and deserves to be responded to as such. This is why God gave us machine guns.

ATQUE: Not Just an Invasion—but Surrender

ATQUE: Weaponized Migration? 50,000 Military-Aged Men Invade Spanish Enclave Without Supplies As Chaos And Riots Erup

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Yet another win for The New Hitler™.

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Herzens), one could closely follow the psychological turmoil raging within the soul of Lieutenant Hofmiller after he asks the host’s daughter for a dance at a social gathering, completely unaware that she is paralyzed. What follows is the lieutenant’s Walk to Canossa, a primary lesson of which is understanding the different types of pity. Through the lieutenant, Zweig demonstrates that pity can be, on the one hand, active, rational, and genuinely helpful. On the other hand, it can be weak, sentimental, and selfish: not truly concerned with saving the other person, but with quickly appeasing one’s own conscience and avoiding the discomfort of confrontation. This sort of virtue signaling, devoid of rationality, ultimately drives both the victim and the benefactor to ruin.

Our age has hardly changed, as we currently live in the cult of empathy, which relates to the second type of pity depicted by Zweig. I recall from my own experience, even during my university times, that it was repeatedly emphasized: if you are not empathetic, you cannot be a good teacher since you must put yourself in the child’s shoes. This is undeniably true but just to a rational extent. Nowadays you cannot even be a corporate executive without empathy, as its absence is said to harm workplace well-being and increase organizational turnover. In fact, even the police are now expected to be empathetic since, according to contemporary progressive narratives, a person exhibiting unlawful behavior is often merely a victim of social circumstances like ‘systemic, white supremacist oppression.’

However, this is one of the greatest fallacies of our time. Empathy is an individual, personal virtue, not a prescriptive behavioral norm—not a universal metric that dictates at all costs how you ought to be. Elevated from the micro to the macro level and made the exclusive basis of state and institutional decision-making, boundless empathy has a self-destructive effect; this is the thesis argued by Gad Saad in his latest book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind.

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In January 2005, at a private conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard President Lawrence Summers violated a central taboo of liberal discourse. In a discussion of why men were overrepresented in tenured science and engineering positions at top universities, he suggested that one possible cause was genetic differences between the sexes.

Summers offered this as one hypothesis among others, including bias against women, the different socialisation of the sexes, and women’s lesser willingness to trade off parental care for time-consuming jobs. His point was that we must understand the causes of unequal representation before trying to change it.

But Summers’s even-handed approach was ignored in the feeding frenzy that followed. The mere suggestion that sex differences in aptitude might be innate—based on genes—was a red line crossed: Summers had raised the spectre of “genetic determinism”. Innate sex differences in aptitude or preference, according to liberal logic, will inevitably produce bias, bigotry, and discrimination—in this case against women—finally yielding inequity: unequal representation of the sexes in valued jobs.

Foolish mortal. He ought to have known better—after all, he dealt with these rabid Wokerati every day.

The Telegraph (UK).

An agreement has been reached to disarm and demilitarise Hamas and the Gaza Strip, Donald Trump has claimed.

The agreement marks a major step towards implementing the US president’s peace plan, under which a Palestinian technocratic government overseen by the US-led Board of Peace would eventually govern Gaza.

“This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY,” Mr Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday.

Until the Muslims break it, as they always do.

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To be fair, English cuisine sets a pretty low bar.

There is also a video in this series in which they try biscuits and creme gravy with sweet tea, which is also a hit.

Cornbread, however, receives a less favorable reception. Unfortunately, they didn’t provide them with hush puppies, which I suspect they would have found more appealing.

I tremble to think how they would react to grits….

“We need Nuremberg trials for all the 2010s. You should legally be forced to wear some kind of patch on you in public to identify you as a Woke 1.0 freak.”  — ShoeOnHead.

ShoeOnHead is one of the most entertaining things you will ever see, on or off the Internet.

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Houston is one of the Blue pustules on the rosy Red cheek of Texas.

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An Afghan woman living in Texas, whose son and son-in-law were convicted of plotting an Election Day mass killing in 2024, had a public removal hearing Thursday, the first case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.

The Justice Department says Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, is being removed for her role in a plot involving her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi. The pair were arrested in October 2024 after buying guns and ammunition from an undercover FBI employee that were to be used in an Election Day attack. The Justice Department asserts the planned shooting was inspired by the terrorist group ISIS. Zada, a legal permanent resident, is challenging the constitutionality of her deportation order.

The case marks the first public session of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a specialized federal court that Congress established in 1996. The court has jurisdiction to remove foreign terrorists from the United States when the government establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that an alien is a terrorist. The secretive court allows the government to produce classified information to use in prosecution.

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I’d tell them: Hope you brought food.

But Spain’s socialist government wouldn’t dare do that, even if they wanted to, which they don’t.

As a result, Spain just got a big batch of Turn World trouble. I wish them the joy of it.

Victor Davis Hanson.

One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn’t seem possible for a variety of ways.

There’s a lot of antitheses. Do we really believe that these upscale people in blue enclaves in the United States who declare themselves socialist and are voting for people like Zohran Mamdani, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib, who are proud, and active, and often fervent Muslims, tolerate gays? Do you really believe if you said, “I am gay, and I’m proud of it, and I want to announce that in Saudi Arabia,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?

Do you really believe that if you went to Iran and said, “I want to repeal all the sodomy laws,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?

Or if you went, let’s say, to Egypt and you said, “I wanna have a trans, sexual support group,” you wouldn’t be in trouble? Do you really believe that upscale, independent women in Western cities, maybe unmarried, professional, doesn’t that bother them a little bit when they ally themselves with radical Muslims who tell them that, as far as men go, their dream is going to an Islamic heaven and having the sexual use as if they’re almost tools of 72 virgins?

Does that go well with a book editor in Manhattan or the head of an NGO in Denver? I don’t think so.

MS NOW’s Velshi Compares Trump, ICE to Nazis: ‘This Is Not Hyperbole’  No, it’s a flat-out lie.

Singer Humiliates Trump After White House Uses His Song (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast needs to learn the distinction between ‘bad-mouth’ and ‘humiliation’.

‘It’s a Joke, But It’s Not a Joke’: MS NOW Claims Trump Wants a 2028 Run

Trump Has Made Billions in Office. Will His Party Pay Politically? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)

A majority of MAGA supporters would still vote for a Republican candidate despite a scandal (Erin Doherty/Politico)  People realize that most such ‘scandals’ are Narrative Media lies.

How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America (Marc Fisher/New Yorker)  And returned the money to the people.

How Trump made America less popular than China (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring) Whatever happens, It’s Trumps Fault.

We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargemt loses his shit.

The Campus Free Speech Wars Are Over. MAGA Won. (Aaron R. Hanlon/New Republic)  There’s that MAGA guy agin. He sure gets around.

Trump’s Court Losses Leave Taxpayers Facing Millions in Legal Fees (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)  At least it’s not “Ten percent for the Big Guy.”.

Reality is a Communist Plot (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

It Doesn’t Get Much Dumber Than Trump’s War on ‘DEI Bike Lanes’ (Sean Woods/Rolling Stone)  On the contrary, there is nothing dumber than “they/them”.

What to know about Republican lame ducks defying Trump over Blanche nomination (Sammy Westfall/Washington Post)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis (Jeremy Konyndyk/Zeteo) Because, as we all know, treating diseased Africans is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer, including anybody who has more money than the Left wants them to have.

Trump has been dismantling post-9/11 counterterrorism protections, Senate report says (Ken Dilanian/MS NOW)  And Security Theater (and the parasites who feed off of it) is suffering. The swine!

Why Trump is Afraid of International Law (Nahal Toosi/Politico)  Because he knows it’s totally politicized against him. Who doesn’t know that?

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community (Melissa Gira Grant/New Republic)  Yeah, it’s called ‘law enforcement’.

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Who knew coyotes were Democrats?

“Not punishing crime is incentivizing it.” — Sarah Hoyt

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Japan needs people.  Apparently they want white people.

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A Spanish Supreme Court ruling restricting the immediate return of migrants arriving by sea has been blamed for an influx that has overwhelmed the reception system in Spain’s North African territory of Ceuta.

Between 1,500 and 2,000 migrants, mainly from Morocco, reached Ceuta by sea over a period of nine or ten days, according to the city’s Mayor-President, Juan Jesús Vivas.

“In the last few days, more than 1,500 migrants, including adults and minors, have reached Ceuta by sea,” Vivas told journalists.

“The reception centers have collapsed and are over-saturated,” he said. Ceuta’s temporary migrant reception centre, which has 512 official places, was housing nearly 600 people, while more than 400 others waited outside.

“We are in a very serious situation. We are in a very difficult situation,” Vivas added, warning of conditions like those in May 2021, when around 8,000 illegal migrants stormed and entered Ceuta in just two days, equal to around 10% of the local population.

Footage circulating on the internet shows how easy it is to enter the exclave by sea, as migrants only need to swim around a short pier to bypass the fence that marks the Spanish-Moroccan border.

And this will continue to happen as long as Spain doesn’t get rid of them as soon as possible.

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A think-tank has warned that British police forces are being hampered by an obsessive focus on diversity, equality and inclusion, with the ideology of “anti-racism” now set against the foundational duty to police without fear or favour.

Policy Exchange’s latest analysis, led by its head of crime and justice David Spencer, points to the failures surrounding the Southport atrocity, the Nottingham stabbings and the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak as evidence of what it calls systemic distortion.

The report estimates that forces across England and Wales have spent at least £631 million on DEI measures and the Police Race Action Plan since 2020.

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Germany’s federal government just dropped numbers that should end every soft-border talking point still circulating in European capitals.

Of the 1,087 suspects identified in 751 recorded gang rapes last year, 53 percent were foreign nationals.

Non-Germans make up less than 17 percent of the population. The 772 victims were overwhelmingly German: 619 of them, or 80 percent, including 565 women.

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In November, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 39. The measure, officially the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, would require Californians to show identification when they vote and force state officials to clean up the voter rolls and verify that the people on them are eligible citizens.

All signs suggest it will pass. A poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found in May that 71% of Californians support requiring proof of citizenship for first-time voter registration, and 54% want it required before every election. However, Attorney General Rob Bonta is trying to make sure it doesn’t pass.

His latest move came on July 21, just months before the November election, when Bonta rewrote the official ballot title for Prop 39, replacing the language he himself approved last year with a new title that proponents say is engineered to make voters reject it.

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Far-left foot soldiers linked with Black Lives Matter and Antifa have established a two-block autonomous zone along Williamson Street in Madison, Wisconsin, following the death of 38-year-old Corey Durrell Ruiz.

Ruiz, who had reportedly been released from prison (read report) shortly before the incident, was approached by police while riding a bicycle after allegedly attempting to enter several vehicles. Far-left activists have since designated the occupied area the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone, or CRAZ.

The encampment appears designed to demonstrate control over public space while creating conditions in which any police intervention could be framed as state repression. However, reporting from local media and anti-communist commentator Karlyn Borysenko suggests the local government is accommodating, and potentially enabling, the occupation rather than moving to dismantle it.

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A criminal investigation into UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski was dropped by London’s Metropolitan Police on Wednesday, July 29th, sparking another row over ‘two-tier policing.’

The row began when 20 images were shared on one of eco-zealot Polanski’s official social media accounts. One featured a photo of a Bristol activist wearing a T-shirt depicting a guillotine and the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel.” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reported the post to police, arguing that it amounted to incitement.

Farage has recently drawn attention to the large number of death threats he receives, particularly since the killing of his colleague Ann Widdecombe. There may be a free speech argument for allowing the image to be shared—even with Polanski’s 713,000 Instagram followers—but Reform officials are understandably nervous. On Wednesday, Farage said that Polanski, as a political leader with a large following,

cannot put out on his social media the image that he did, my name, the guillotine, without some consequences.

However, the Met concluded that sharing the image did not meet the threshold for incitement. Avon and Somerset Police, which examined the conduct of the person wearing the T-shirt because the photograph was taken in its area, also found that “the threshold for a criminal offence has not been met”:

The Antiplanner.

“Yes, you read that right,” enthuses California journalist Joe Mathews. “Morocco has high-speed rail. And California has excuses.”

At first glance, Morocco’s high-speed train, known as Al Boraq (“the lightning”), sounds pretty amazing. It goes up to 200 miles per hour. Costing just $10 million per mile, it cut the travel time between Casablanca and Tangier from 4-3/4 hours to 2-1/4 hours.

Up close, it isn’t quite as amazing. While the route is 201 miles, only 116 miles were built new; the other 85 miles was existing track whose top speed is 100 miles per hour. Still, that’s no more than $18 million a mile for the new construction. The average speed from Casablanca to Tangier is about 88 miles an hour, indicating that not many miles reach the top speed of 200 miles per hour.

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The McKinney Islamic Association is facing continued scrutiny after the McKinney City Council announced it will be holding a final vote on a proposed mosque and Islamic center.

Last week, it was revealed that McKinney’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the association’s plan to build a new mosque and community campus off Virginia Parkway near two residential neighborhoods. The council is scheduled to approve or deny the project at its Aug. 4 meeting.

Ammon Blair, senior fellow for the Secure & Sovereign Nation initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told the Daily Signal that Texas needs to “demand complete transparency regarding MIA’s funding, foreign contributions, institutional affiliations, tribunal activities, use of campus facilities, dispute-resolution practices, and protections against coercion.”

“Texas must enforce one constitutional order, one civil sovereign, and one controlling rule of law,” he said. “No religious, ideological, political, or foreign-linked organization stands above that standard.”

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Dr. Karim Ab? Zaid confirmed to The Dallas Express last week that Salahuddin Future Academy purchased the former Korean church, writing in a statement that the “purchase of the property has been completed.”

According to Authentic Ilm Mission’s website, the project will include what it describes as America’s first national residential Dawah Seminary, offering programs leading to both a diploma and a bachelor’s degree in Islamic studies.

In addition to the seminary, K-12 academy, and mosque, the property will also house an Ansar Pantry, a community food bank open to the public. The pantry will provide a variety of food items while specifically sourcing and distributing halal meat to meet Muslim dietary needs.

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So we’ve got that going for us.

Now we know why Fauci was taking the Fifth.

Trump, 80, Falls Asleep After Mocking Lindsey Graham at His Funeral (The New Republic) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Trump Crashes Into Reality (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)  Uh, no, merely the Narrative.

At Graham’s Farewell, a Glimpse Into Power in Trump’s Washington (Peter Baker/New York Times)  ‘Trump’s Washington’? Which Washington would that be? Not Washington state, which is reliably Blue. Not D.C., which is also reliably Blue. What is this ‘Trump’s Washington’ of which you speak?

Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, paying for drugs for those on Medicare is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right (Elisabeth Zerofsky/New York Times)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

Trump’s waning sway over the world (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  It’s all those Trump Cooties.

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway. (Thomas Frank/Politico)  Because, as we all know, coping with disasters is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

CNN Poll: Americans doubt Trump is paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The fake historian advising Trump’s anti-Smithsonian crusade (Popular Information)  And the fake journalists pushing the Narrative.

With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue (New York Times)

Alex Jones calls for immediate Trump impeachment (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

DHS Agents’ Raging Texts About ‘Stunt’ Targeting Newsom Revealed (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you move.”

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Advocates for voter ID in California have sued the state over altered ballot language for the November initiative.

The ballot initiative Proposition 39, which would amend the state constitution to require that voters provide government-issued identification to vote, originally included the description, “Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.”

However, last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, changed the language to say: “Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”

Plaintiffs supporting the passage of Proposition 39 say it would not “prohibit” any votes. Under federal law—the Help America Vote Act—voters can cast provisional ballots if there is a question about their eligibility.

Further, supporters of the ballot initiative contend that state law requires state officials to “give a true and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure” in developing ballot language, KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento reported. The lawsuit calls the state’s updated description “not a true and impartial statement of the measure’s purpose.”

And Democrats were crooked every age….

Babylon Bee.

Hey, we all make bad choices in life….

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Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division headed to duty on the U.S.-Mexico border will be among the first to live in new 3D-printed barracks unveiled this week at an Army base in Texas.

Two new 3D-printed barracks buildings at Fort Bliss, Texas, which opened on Tuesday, are built for transient soldiers who are not permanently assigned to the base, Army officials said in a release. The service signed a $62.8 million contract with construction company ICON to build 10 barracks that can hold 560 troops.

Army officials said some of the first residents will include soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Mobile Brigade “Bastogne” unit from Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Their deployment to the southern border was announced in June.

I have an idea—let’s 3-D-print a wall along the southern border so these guys can stay in Kentucky.

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Her parents fled Laos in 1976. Her father lied on the immigration forms to “skip a step” so they could get into the U.S. faster. She then automatically got U.S. citizenship when her parents became citizens.

Even after the controversy, Kaohly was elected the mayor of St. Paul in November 2025, because of course.

Fast-forward to July 2026, and the police chief has filed a criminal complaint against Mayor Her, alleging that she sent inappropriate messages to city employees.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

ATQUE: Her’s on first (Power Line)

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One hand washes the other.

Newsbusters.

Christiane Amanpour, the eponymous host of PBS’s Amanpour & Company, welcomed author and activist Bill McKibben to Tuesday’s show to partake in the latest doom-and-gloom prognostications on the environment. According to McKibben, climate change is mostly former President Ronald Reagan’s fault and any additional blame should be directed at President Trump for engaging in “economic-self sabotage.”

Towards the end of their discussion, Amanpour invited McKibben to “Tell me your story about President Carter back in the ’70s. There was the oil crisis there, and he did all sorts of things, including putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. What did he tell people back then? Tell the American people?”

McKibben mourned, “What he told people was that the sun was, in fact, the future. And in his last budget, he put aside another R&D money that the plan was for America to be producing 20 percent of its power from the sun by the year 2000. Had we done that, we would live in a very different world today, a much cooler one, because this renewable revolution would have been pushed forward several decades.”

Lamenting Reagan’s election, McKibben continued, “Instead, of course, Ronald Reagan was elected over Mr. Carter, and he took down those solar panels from the White House roof. More importantly, he took that money out of the budget and locked us into this cycle of endless drilling for more oil that’s come to define not only America’s economy, but America’s politics.”

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History was made with the flip of a switch at 12:30 a.m. on June 4, under partly cloudy skies and a waning three-quarter moon in Idaho’s Arco Desert, when a prototype reactor sustained a nuclear chain reaction, becoming the first new design to achieve “criticality,” or viability, in the United States since 1973.

In that midnight milestone’s wake, the future is following fast. Since Antares Nuclear’s Mark-0 design was validated in early June, three other novel reactor designs have met the U.S. Department of Energy’s criticality requirements and, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Up to four more could do so by year’s end.

While technologies, fuels, and applications vary, these prototypes share common traits. All are far smaller than the conventional reactors with massive cement cooling towers, and all are designed to be mass-produced, portable, and scalable. Several can fit in the bed of a pickup truck.

Me want.

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The American Bar Association president, Michelle Behnke, gave a disastrous performance at a House Oversight Committee Task Force hearing last week.

She doubled down on DEI and couldn’t answer even straightforward questions.

In one emperor-has-no-clothes moment, she refused to answer what her implicit biases might be—even though the ABA proclaims that everyone has them.

In another, she said that she didn’t know if the U.S. has ever had a transgender Supreme Court justice.

And in yet another, she refused to repudiate President Joe Biden’s exclusion of black men—solely on their biological sex—from consideration to be a Supreme Court justice.

The list goes on.

You can’t make this shit up.

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On July 15th, Mario Roggero, a jeweller from Piedmont charged with fatally shooting two of the three robbers who had just raided his shop in 2021, received a final sentence of fourteen years and nine months in prison. This protracted legal battle has opened up a new political front in Italy and reignited a heated debate: to what extent does a citizen have the right to defend themselves when the state is no longer able to protect them?

With a new election cycle just a few months away, the case has become a powerful symbol for the Italian Right, which sees it as an illustration of a justice system more concerned with the rights of offenders than with those of victims. Conversely, the judiciary and the Left are defending the ruling as essential to upholding the rule of law, refusing to equate self-defence with a right to revenge.

The events date back to 28 April 2021. Three armed men entered Mario Roggero’s jewellery shop in Grinzane Cavour, Piedmont. The shopkeeper, his wife, and his daughter were threatened during the robbery. When the criminals fled, Roggero grabbed his legally owned gun, chased them down the street and fired several shots at their vehicle. Two robbers were killed; the third was seriously injured.

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Sweden’s left-wing parties are running Arabic-language advertisements aimed at immigrant voters ahead of this year’s elections, repeating a strategy used during the 2022 campaign.

The advertisements have appeared on Al Kompis, an Arabic-language website aimed at immigrants in Sweden who cannot speak Swedish. Political parties and public authorities have previously used the platform to reach the country’s Arabic-speaking population.

Among those advertising during the current campaign are the Social Democrats and the Centre Party.

An advertisement featuring Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson promises greater investment in healthcare and schools. It links to a dedicated campaign page claiming that the party’s economic policies would leave “ordinary people” with more money.

The party also promises support for workers, families and pensioners struggling with rising electricity, fuel, food and borrowing costs.

The Centre Party’s advertisements focus on fighting racism and discrimination. One features MEP Abir Al-Sahlani, who says she is “equally skilled at cooking Iraqi and Swedish dishes.”

On the party’s campaign page, Al-Sahlani says she wants Sweden to have “a balanced immigration policy that upholds human rights.”

Taking bets on which Nordic country turns full Muslim first.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

I hope Rand Paul can lead him into some post-pardon perjury.

ATQUE: Committee Could Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress, Paul Warns

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Viral footage circulating online shows a British man methodically working his way along the streets of his own city with a wheeled bin and litter picker, clearing the rubbish left by others. He is not being paid and not making a political point. He is simply trying to prevent the area from descending into a tip.

Remarkably, as he works, foreign shopkeepers and residents repeatedly emerge from their premises to instruct him to clear the mess outside their own doors, standing by as he does so.

One older local, taking in the state of the streets, observes that if President Trump were to see them he would declare the place a “shithole.”

And he would be correct. Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World problems (i.e. shithole).

Newsbusters.

Not really knews, but a useful reminder.

Newsbusters.

The Elitist Media Evening News are continuing to do their level best to ignore the explosive details of both the Fauci Files and the Biden Tapes. None of the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS devoted any coverage to these two crucial and grossly undercovered stories.

The consensus national story on tonight’s evening news appears to be…the squirrel that disrupted play at Detroit’s Comerica Park between the hometown Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles. Here is that report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, July 28th, 2026:

tReason magazine, a Voice of the Looney Libertarian Left.

When you add it all up, 150 of this year’s congressional races featured no meaningful competition, according to a new report from Unite America, a nonprofit advocating for election reforms.

“These 150 candidates, mostly incumbents, ran unopposed in the dominant party primary for districts that the Cook Political Report rates as uncompetitive in the general election,” the report explains. “In other words, we already know not only which party is all but guaranteed to win these seats in November, but which person will win.”

This is an underappreciated problem plaguing American democracy—and one that contributes to other, more visible problems, like gerontocracy and Congress’ general flaccidity in the face of executive overreach. In those 150 districts where there are no competitive elections this year, over 84 million Americans have been effectively disenfranchised. Those voters can’t make a different choice, no matter how badly they might want one.

They could move. Nobody has nailed their feet to the ground. People who “can’t make a different choice” in California and New York have been moving to Texas and Florida for quite a while now. People in ‘competitive’ districts who lose the election can “make a different choice” all they want to, but their views still aren’t represented by the winning party’s candidate. How does this improve their lives? This is not rocket science.

I am constantly scratching my head about this fetish certain people have for ‘competitive districts’ for Congress. On the part of ‘journalists’ I can understand it, because political sturm und drang pays their bills, but for people who in theory actually follow (and allegedly think about) politics don’t have that excuse. The cure for ’84 million Americans have been effectively dis[en]franchise’ is to increase the percentage of the minority so that when the election is over even more people are ‘dis[en]franchised‘? How does that make any sense?

THE PURPOSE OF CONGRESS IS REPRESENTATION. The more ‘uncompetitive’ a district is, the more accurately the resulting winner will represent the existing inhabitants of that district. A district that is 95% Democrat or 95% Republican will represent the viewpoint of the overwhelming majority of the people. If the district becomes ‘competitive’, meaning it drops to, say, 55% of one party and 45% of the other, THAT INCREASES THE PERCENTATE OF PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT WHO, WHEN THEY LOSE THE ELECTION, ARE ‘DIS[en]FRANCHISED’ (in the sense that their ‘representative’ represents the viewpoint of the other side).

The best representation is when 100% of the people in a district favor one party; the only questions that arise in an election are internal differences within the broad range of what that party stands for. That’s democracy pure and simple.

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